Golden Fleece Award

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Department of Education (ED) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for poor implementation of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for the upcoming 2024-2025 academic year.   Rep. Hill said, “The Department of Education has utterly failed in their rollout of the new simplified FAFSA ahead of the… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Department of Defense (DOD) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for poor management of the military barracks that house many of our nation’s servicemembers, exposing those who protect and defend the United States to unsafe conditions and negatively impacting their quality of life and work performance.   Rep. Hill… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for maintaining poor record-keeping processes of sensitive taxpayer information which may have exposed individual taxpayers to potential identity theft fraud.   Rep. Hill said, “The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has failed to fulfill their… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Department of Education (ED) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for supporting and promoting fiscally irresponsible policies, like debt forgiveness, related to the federal government’s student loan programs.   Rep. Hill said, “The Department of Education has long over-extended the moratorium on student loan… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for their lack of monitoring the practices of Medicare plan sponsors who improperly approved and dispensed transmucosal immediate-release fentanyl (TIRF) drugs, resulting in Medicare recipients receiving these dangerous and addictive… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for their lack of monitoring and enforcing the terms of grants awarded to EchoHealth Alliance (EcoHealth), resulting in a lack of effective oversight of their research that may have led to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rep Hill said, “Due… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for not executing proper control or oversight, resulting in $3.7 billion in improper payments by 21 State Workforce Agencies (SWA) from the Lost Wages Assistance (LWA) program implemented by President Trump in midst of the COVID-19… Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Department of Education as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award due to the agency’s gross miscalculations of the William D. Ford Direct Loan program, at the expense of the federal government and the American taxpayer. “Since the establishment of the federal Direct Loan program, the Department of Education has continuously… Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for the agency’s reckless distribution of nearly expired COVID-19 at-home rapid tests to the American people. “When the covidtests.gov program was created, the goal was to provide Americans with reliable, at-home COVID-19 rapid tests for… Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. French Hill (AR-02) named the Department of Labor (DOL) the latest recipient of his Golden Fleece Award for the agency’s lack of proper oversight regarding fraudulent unemployment insurance payments made during the COVID-19 pandemic. “While millions across the nation suffered economic hardship because of the COVID-19 pandemic, cheats siphoned off some $163 billion –… Read more »